Thursday, September 18, 2008

Excerpts from a recent update by Ronnie Grant, CSUEU Vice President for Organizing:

All-BUC meeting October 1 and 2

All bargaining unit councils are meeting starting at 10 a.m. on October 1 at the Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, 300 J Street, Sacramento until 3 p.m. on October 2. I have not seen an agenda yet, but I suspect that this all-BUC meeting will discuss and formulate some initial strategy and potential bargaining proposals.

Only BUC members and statewide officers are funded. Because bargaining strategy is likely to be discussed, portions of the meeting may be closed to the general membership.

CSEA Board meetings

The CSEA Board will be meeting at 10 a.m. on 9/27 at the Marriott in downtown Los Angeles. An executive session will be held at 4 p.m. on 9/26 and a closed planning retreat will be held earlier on Friday.

I have been advised that agenda packets have been sent to Printing Services late last week. Each Chapter President should receive one at your home address in CSEA's records.

CSEA has scheduled a special closed CSEA Board meeting via conference call on 9/17 at 11 a.m. to discuss a personnel matter.

Look for an upcoming CSUEU Board conference call

A special meeting of the CSUEU Board of Directors will likely take place via conference call within the next 4-6 weeks. Our Board needs to adopt positions on candidates and ballot measures before the November election. When a date is set, Board members will be notified.

Recent CSU technical memorandums

The Chancellor's office has released several new systemwide memorandums to campuses:

Pay letter 2008-05, announcing that a range code 3 (Cruise) has been added to class 0310 (Food Service Worker I Lead) and class 0311 (Food Service Worker II Lead), both in unit 5. A Cruise range applies to an employee in the class who serves on a ship out at sea at the Maritime Academy. http://www.calstate.edu/HRAdm/pdf2008/Payletter2008-05.pdf [PDF]